Installations

Award–winning poet Nicole Brossard interrogates the nature of subjectivity and articulates the unsayable, paying close attention to those transitory moments when passions lodge themselves in metaphor. The intimacy of writing and the body speak together here, for to be able to say requires trembling against the grain of the skin. This brilliant new translation by Erin Mour and Robert Majzels makes available in English the original, sparse, and highly evocative fragments of Installations, poems that trace and retrace the spiralling movement of language in its eroticism, its longing, and its excesses.

Award–winning poet Nicole Brossard interrogates the nature of subjectivity and articulates the unsayable, paying close attention to those transitory moments when passions lodge themselves in metaphor. The intimacy of writing and the body speak together here, for to be able to say requires trembling against the grain of the skin. This brilliant new translation by Erin Mour and Robert Majzels makes available in English the original, sparse, and highly evocative fragments of Installations, poems that trace and retrace the spiralling movement of language in its eroticism, its longing, and its excesses.

Nicole Brossard is a poet, novelist and essayist who has published more than thirty books since 1965, including These Our Mothers, Lovhers, Mauve Desert and Baroque at Dawn. She co-founded La Barre du Jour and La Nouvelle Barre de Jour, two important literary journals in Quebec. She has won two Governor General's Awards for poetry, as well as le Prix Athanase-David, and her work has been translated into several languages.

Erin Mouré is an award-winning poet (Governor General’s, QSPELL) with ten published collections to her credit. Her work has appeared in every major Canadian literary journal as well as several American publications.

Montreal&#ndash;born Nicole Brossard published her first book in 1965. Since then, she has published eight novels and many books of poetry. She is a two–time winer of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry.